Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Sitecore 7 Initial Release Now Available

This is very exciting news for a lot of reasons. First of all, my new laptop is running Windows 8 so I was forced to run Sitecore 6.6 on a VM on my laptop rather than natively.

Hello Sitecore Enthusiast!

Sitecore is pleased to announce the availability of Sitecore7. Sitecore can scale
to massive amounts of content, and allow users to search, filter and target
that content in more sophisticated ways than ever before.

Sitecore 7.0 rev. 130424 Major Features
and Highlights:

Item Buckets for large scale storage of content without
a tree structure

Faceted Search

Tagging and Bulk Operations

Boosting Rules

New Search Screens for content authors in the Content
Editor, Page Editor, and in many dialog boxes.

LINQ to Provider

Datasource Queries and GUID/LinkDatabase Datasources

DocumentMapping

A new Sitecore.ContentSearch namespace that contains
new indexing and search APIs.